SR.N5 XW246 Interservice Hovercraft Unit in the "The Hovercraft Museum" at Lee-on-Solent (UK), between Portsmouth and Southampton - 09.03.2019

A very intersting and "living" musuem - highly to recommend!


The SR.N5 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 5), or Warden class hovercraft, was the first production-built hovercraft in the world. Of the fourteen built, seven were built under licence by Bell Aerosystems as the Bell SK-5. Four of the N5s served with the “Interservice Hovercraft Trials Unit” at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), seeing action in multiple theatres including Belgium, Libya, Thailand, and Malaysia.
Two craft were eventually converted to SR.N6s. Our example went through a complete restoration and has even won an engineering award for the brilliant effort of all the volunteers involved.
Source: Homepage of "The Hovercraft Museum", https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/